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BROODER HOUSE. APPLIOATIQN FILED MAY 24. 1907.

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GEORGE HOWARD LEE, OEkOMAHA, NEBRASKA.

BROODER-HOUSE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .Tune-2, 1908.

Application lec'l May 24, 1907. Serial No. 375,444.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HOWARD LEE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Brooder-House, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to brooder houses such as used by poultry breeders in raising chickens or other fowls.

The object of the invention is to produce a brooder house which can be economically constructed, and in which the chicks can be attended to conveniently and with a minimum amount of labor of the attendant.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.,

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part .of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts` in both iigures.

Figure 1 is a cross section through a brooder house constructed according to my invention; this view is taken near the line 1-1 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a ground plan showingthe principal portion of the brooder house illustrated in Fig. 1; this view is taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

In building a brooder house according to my invention, I construct the same with a central passageway 1, which may be entered by doors 2 in the end walls 3 of the house. On each side of the passageway 1, the interior of the house is divided into a plurality of compartments or apartments 4. These apartments 4 are arranged in tiers, preferably two in number. The iioor 5 of the lower tier apartment is slightly elevated above they ground line, as shown in Fig. 1. The floor 6 of the upper apartment is elevated about three feet. All of the apartments on the same lioor are divided from each other by partitions 7; these partitions preferably consist of a single board. These boards or partitions are provided on their upper edges with alining recesses or notches 8 in'which longitudinal rails-9 are attached. To these rails in each compartment a hover 10 is attached by hinges 11. The forward wall 12 of each apartment is formed of a board having substantially the same height as the partitions 7. At the points where the hovers are attached, the upper parts of the walls 12 are cut away and provided with hinged doors 13 adapted to fold downwardly, as will be readily understood. When these doors are folded down, they allow the heating flue 14 of the hover to pass through into the central passageway 1. The heating 'liue 14 is provided with a chimney or hood 15, which is adapted to come into position over alamp 16 provided in a convenient position, by

means of a suitable shelf 17 or block 1S set upon the floor. The hovers 1() are substantially similar in construction to the hovers patented to me July 11, 1905, Number 794521.

The apartments on the same tier are provided withsmall doors 19 which are adapted to be opened so as to allow the chicks to pass from one apartment to another if desired. The hovers are adapted to'be raised upon the hinge connections 11 as indicated at the right in Fig. 1, and they may be then supported at their free ends upon hooks 20. These hooksmay be attached to the roof, as indicated at the right in Fig. 1, or may be attached to the under side of the fioor 6 to hold up the lower tier of hovers. `When the hovers are raised in this manner, the doors 13 are raised; that is, they are closed, as indicated at the upper tier in-Fig. 1. This is to prevent the chicks from jumping through the opening formed in the front wall 12 of the apartment by raising the hover.

The rear parts of the apartments are covered by removable screens 21 which rest at their ends upon cleats 22 attached to the division walls, as indicated. The forward spaces of the apartments are closed by screens 23 and 24 which are hinged at their rear edges to the rails 9. These screens are adapted to be held supported by hooks 25 similar to the hooks 20. The forward wall 12 of each apartment is provided with a large door 26 which facilitates the cleaning out of the apartments, as will -be readily understood.

'It is desirable to place the hover between the screens 23 and 24 so as to keep it away from the side walls of the brooder. There is then no danger of the chicks crowding against the wall and trampling the weaker ones to death as sometimes occurs.- 'Opposite the apartments windows 27 are placed, the same being arranged in tiers as shown. The roof 28 of the house is constructed so as to present a saw tooth 29 wherebyv a vertical face is formed between the upper edges of the two parts of the roof, in which a window 30 is provided, which admits light to the passageway. If the weather is unusually cold, a stove 31 may be provided in one of the middle apartments, instead of employing this apartment for the chicks. The smaller chicks will be vkept in the upper pens or cornpartments, and the older ones in the lower ones. When the chicks in the lower compartments are old enough, they may be allowed to run out of the brooder house in the adjoining yard. The arrangement described has the advantage of enabling all of the larplps to be readily watched and attended.

aving thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A brooder house having a plurality oi apartments `for the chicks, movable hovers mounted in said apartments and adapted to be supported in a raised position to expose the floors of said apartments, and movable screens on each side of said hovers and spacing said hovers from the side walls of said y apartments.

iree ends adjacent to said passage, and

means for holding the free ends of said hovers in an elevated position, said means being within reach from said passage. l M'm 3. A brooder house having a passage with apartments formed at the sides thereof, hovers hinged within said apartments and having hoods projecting into said passage7 heating devices in said passage under said hoods, and means for holding said hovers in a raised position within reach from said passage.

4. A brooder house having a passage and a plurality of apartments arranged in tiers near said passage, hovers in said apartments heating devices in said passage, and hoods carried by said hovers projecting into said passage over said heating devices.

5. A brooder house having a passage, a plurality of apartments having a wall separating them from said passage, hovers movably mounted in said apartments and adapted to be held raised therein, said wall having openings opposite said hovers, said hovers having flues extending through said openings into said passage, and means at said openings adapted to close the same when said hovers are raised.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE HOWARD LEE.

Witnesses:

F. E. CoATswoRTH, A. L. RoBEY 

